'They've given up': GOP member releases tirade against colleagues 'rolling over' for Trump

Some members of the Republican Party have accused the Rules Committee of "rolling over" to make way for Donald Trump's demands.

One member of the GOP claimed there were some bills passed into the House that would not have made it there had it not been for the president's demands. Thomas Massie, an outspoken critic of Trump, told The Independent he was surprised at how stringent some Republican Party members had been when following Trump's orders.

He said, "I thought I'd have some other people occasionally when he deviated from his promises. I mean, my colleagues here are increasingly being forced to choose between President Trump and President Trump's promises, and so far, they've chose President Trump but not his promises."

Specifically on Rules Committee members Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, Massie said, "I'm kind of disappointed with what's going on there."

"There's three conservatives who were supposed to make things happen, and they seem to have given up on that effort, and the rules committee, that's totally gone."

The Rules Committee is currently led by Virginia Foxx, and was previously run by Republican Party members Tom Cole and Michael Burgess.

Disgruntlements within the GOP come as Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman suggests it would take just eight defectors in the party to sever Trump's strong grip on power.

He wrote, "What can we say about the cowardly Republicans in Congress, who are still sustaining Trump even though many of them – perhaps most of them – are privately appalled by his behavior?"

"It would take just eight of these people — four Republican senators and four Republican House members — to switch sides and caucus with the Democrats to end GOP control of Congress and eliminate much of Trump’s power."

"But taking such a step would mean risking Trump’s wrath by standing up and acting like patriots, rather than knuckling down and averting their eyes as Trump descends into madness."